In simple terms - nowhere special. I suppose he could still surprise all of us. But this article seems to suggest otherwise. That would put this directly into the territory of all such previous "big announcements" concerning UFOs:

Nowhere special....

I cannot speak for others, but for me this all seems more tiring than interesting.

Bonehead

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"The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible."ALBERT EINSTEIN

I recently re-read Ruppelt's book "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects". I believe this was an accurate account of our government's effort to investigate the UFO problem, and his account made it clear that no one in government had a clue what was going on. There were camps on either side of the issue, and the conservative "show me the money" side won out. There can be no confirmation of alien visitation without hard evidence, and as far as we know there is no hard evidence.

I believe no one to this day knows the truth of the matter, therefore there can be no disclosure!

My advice is to wait 60 days and sees if anything happens. Why should it be believed Delonge was given any special information or that it is true.

I don't get good feelings when he talks about the "announcement" being so much more then what it looks like on the surface. He wants us "as educated people to read between the lines".

In other words, IMO, put your own spin on it to believe what you want. My prediction is some kind of ambiguous statements that will be grasped upon by UFO fringe groups as meaning more then what is actually said.

Anyone else have any predictions? We can check back in 60 days and maybe award a prize to the winner. That gives me an idea - we can create a whole list of awards based on prominent UFOCB posters.

I predict there will be more "big announcements" coming soon...stay tuned folks !

LAS VEGAS - Can a rock star do what generations of investigators have failed to manage -- that is, find out what the government knows about UFOs?

Last year, Tom DeLonge, the co-founder of Blink 182, told the I-Team about his plans to create a multi-media empire based on inside information given to him by military sources he had cultivated.

Since then, DeLonge has taken some lumps, and his grand plan was nearly crushed by the WikiLeaks disclosures.

The rock star life was good for Tom DeLonge. he had millions of fans, sold millions of records, and would occasionally mention his obsession in song lyrics.

But since becoming more serious about UFOs, HE'S MANAGED TO TICK OFF JUST ABOUT EVERYONE, ESPECIALLY THE UFO FAITHFUL WHO'VE ACCUSED HIM OF BEING A DUPE, A FRAUD, A TOOL OF THE DEEP STATE, OR DELUSIONAL. DeLonge has persevered.

"This is the greatest story never told period, you don't even need to sensationalize anything. It's like science fiction, but more like science non-fiction," said Tom DeLonge, founder of To The Stars.

Last year, when DeLonge showed us the headquarters for his new company, To The Stars, he revealed that he had talked his way into a seat at the UFO table, by somehow cultivating a group of high-ranking sources or advisors from within the defense establishment, the keepers of UFO secrets. He says he did it by making this pitch.

"They have been backed into a corner and need a way for this to get out and I went in there saying, there will never be congressional hearings on this. I understand and accept that but what I think can happen is that we can change belief systems," DeLonge said.

What he offered to do was to invest millions of his own dollars into telling a different story. One that explained why the cone of silence had been dropped over UFOs, why misinformation was spread. In exchange, they told him things.

Tom DeLonge: "He says, 'We found a life form..'"George Knapp: "We found a life form?"Tom DeLonge: "When we first found the vehicles, I know we brought in private industry, military, intelligence, a good diverse group of elevated thinkers and said, how do we handle this?"

Defending the military's handling of UFO secrecy was too much for many researchers. They dismissed DeLonge as a profiteer, out to make a buck on flying saucers, and maybe of making it all up.

Then came WikiLeaks Presidential advisor John Podesta's emails spilled out for the whole world to see and in the middle of them were multiple emails to and from DeLonge, naming his secret panel of advisors, and showing there had been high-level meetings of generals and military contractors to discuss UFO disclosure.

DeLonge had been telling the truth. In February, DeLonge accepted an award from the UFO Congress in Arizona, HE HAS SINCE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT HIS PANEL OF ADVISORS HAD BEEN SHELL SHOCKED BY THE LEAKS, AND THAT HIS PLANS HAD BEEN DELAYED BUT NOT DERAILED.

For the last few months, DeLonge has been almost silent about his plans. On his Twitter feed, he's acknowledged delays in making his big announcement but says it's still coming. There are other hints about who might be helping him. A former high-ranking CIA operative Jim Semivan wrote the forward to one of DeLonge's books.

Astrophysicist and author Dr. Jacques Vallee did likewise. and a former defense department official named Chris Mellon has made public statements about UFO secrecy. If DeLonge has a new team of advisors, he may be inching closer to his original plan of using movies and TV and other media for a program of gradual disclosure, rather than a sudden announcement.

"I think they really do want us to know. I really do think they do. I do, at this point, feel like it's going to be a tough thing to swallow for people and I think there are elements about it that people are not ready for," Delonge said.

HE HAD HOPED TO MAKE SOME SORT OF ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT HIS BUSINESS PLANS BY THE BEGINNING OF JUNE BUT IT LOOKS LIKE THAT WILL BE DELAYED UNTIL LATER THIS SUMMER.

They become (relatively) famous for singing a few songs and suddenly they are all-knowing sages who move around in weird secret circles with high power military men and women who can't wait to divulge top secret knowledge to them.

They are just paid warblers; for Christ's sake.

I can never understand why people are taken in by them.

HALINT21

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Isn't it midnight, on the other side of the world.Do you rememberthe face of a pretty girl ?

Something extraordinary was revealed today. Former high-level officials and scientists with deep black experience who have always remained in the shadows came forward on one platform. These insiders have long-standing connections to government agencies which may have programs investigating unidentifed aerial phenomena (UAP/UFOs). The team includes a 25-year veteran of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, a Lockheed Martin Program Director for Advanced Systems at “Skunk Works”, and a former deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence.

Today marked the official launch of To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science (TTS/AAS) an innovative Public Benefit Corporation which will advance research into unexplained phenomena and develop related technology. It has established three synergistic divisions: Science, Areospace, and Entertainment. “We believe there are discoveries within our reach that will revolutionize the human experience,” says company President and CEO Tom DeLonge. Please see my previous story,- released yesterday - for background on today’s announcement which was live-streamed and is archived on the company website.

According to a TTS /AAS statement, it’s team members who have been “operating under the shadows of top-secrecy for decades” believe that “there is sufficient credible evidence of UAP that proves exotic technologies exist that could revolutionize the human experience.”

This could represent the beginning of a trend towards a new openness on the part of the U.S. government. These people know more than any of us, and they will be releasing important data on UAP in the future. As an investgative reporter with a long standing interest in this subject, who has worked with a few Academy team members in the past, I was shown some of this data at a meeting with them on Oct 4.

Present for that four hour meeting was Luis Eiizondo, who ran an important program at the DOD. Elizondo is a senior career intelligence officer whose experience includes working with the U.S. Army, the Dept of Defense, the National Counterintelligence Executive, and the Director of National Intelligence. He served as the Director for the National Programs Special Management Staff in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He is also the former Director of Programs to investigate Unidentified Aerial Threats for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

“Lue will architect partnerships with some very sensitive places, to help protect us and the technology involved, so we may achieve for you the extraordinary,” DeLonge said at today’s event.

Lue had resigned his position at the DOD literally the day before we met. I was able to verify who he was and what his tasks were at the Pentagon. He received the highest commendatons from his superiors. I was told that important unclassified data and documentation are expected to be released through the Academy’s on-line Community of Interest (COI) in collaboration with the US government, which will be set up soon.

I asked him if these unidentified objects were considered to be threats. “They did not exhibit overt hostility,” he said. “But something unexplained is always assumed to be a potential threat until we are certain it isn’t. On the bright side, I believe we are closer than ever before in our understanding of how it operates,” he told me.

At the event today, Elizondo explained his work this way: “I am accustomed to being involved in close-hold, nuanced programs involving national security. This includes being a Counterintelligence Special Agent, a case officer, and intelligence practitioner. However, by far the most interesting effort I was involved with was the topic of Advanced Aerial Threats.”

He stated that he ran “a sensitive aerospace threat identification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies.” His job at TTS/AAS will be “to work as a liaison and interlocutor in the collection of this information for the Science division, allowing us to collect facts for analysis.” How will this be done? One way is through the COI, which will “provide a platform for the detection and triangulation of phenomena events in real time, and allows two-way communication between the public and our team regarding this information.”Subscribe to The Morning EmailAs a result of his position managing the DOD program for almost a decade, Lue said “I learned that the phenomena is indeed real.”

In short, less that two weeks after leaving the Pentagon, Luis Elizondo confirmed that UFOs are a real; they exist, and they have been officially documented. Can anyone argue with this fact now, given where this man comes from and what he knows?

A former high ranking DOD official - who only left his position last week - has confirmed that an official UFO Program exists, answering a question so many have debated and speculated about for decades.

It is very important to understand that Lue does not speak for the DOD, since he is no longer employed there; he speaks independently as part of the TTS Academy.

Lue also stated: “We are also planning to provide never before released footage from real US Government systems...not blurry, amateur photos, but real data and real videos.” And even more significant: “We are inviting our Government colleagues and friends in Defense to participate regularly with their own findings.”

Another member of the team, Stephen Justice, an experienced aerospace engineer, explained that he will use scientific disoveries about the travel of UAP through space, demonstrating almost unimaginable technology, to develop technology that can change the world. Steve recently retired as a Program Director for Advanced Systems at Lockheed Martin after a thirty-one year career in the Skunk Works. “How dare we think that the physics we have today is all that there is,” he told me in an interview a few days ago. The opportunity here, as he sees it, is to “stand in the future and look back.””

Steve’s objective is to harvest this advanced technology to build a vehicle that will allow for almost instantaneous travel through land, air, oceans and space, by engineering the fabric of space-time. Such a vehicle could also float, like something from science fiction. Steve says we have had glimpses of the science that could make this possible. It is not outside the realm of possibiity, if the necessary resources are in place.

TTS Academy member Chris Mellon served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence for two administrations, and early in his career drafted the legislation that established the US Special Operations Command at a time when terrorism was not yet on the radar. He presented an overview of a 2004 incident involving the battleship USS Nimitz which was detected on two separate radars.

“Two F-18s approach, the four aviators see that the object has no wings or exhaust — it is white, oblong, some 40 ft long and perhaps 12 ft thick”, he said. “One pilot pursues the craft while his wingman stays high. The pilots are astonished to see the object suddenly reorient itself toward the approaching F-18. In a series of discrete tumbling maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of physics, the object takes a position directly behind the approaching F-18.”

The lengthy event occurred in broad daylight off the California coast, and gun camera footage was taken. At one point the object went from hovering at 80,000 feet to dropping at supersonic speeds, and came to a complete stop at 50 feet above the ocean. “More F-18’s are dispatched but with similar results,” Mellon stated. “The secret machine easily evades the F-18s. Dozens of military personnel aboard the various planes and ships involved are privy to these interactions.”

Tom DeLonge’s final message today sums up the position of all involved: “No one person, one government, or one hidden institution should own this information and technology.”

The TTS Academy intends to release game-changing information of the type interested people have been seeking for a long time. “The fact is, we might not necessarily be alone,” Luis Elizondo says. “Now is the time to move forward and try to answer some of life’s deepest mysteries.”

Former Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge has kicked his efforts to find and explore extraterrestrial life into overdrive. The singer and guitarist has had a longstanding obsession with aliens, extending back even before he sang “Aliens Exist” on the band’s 1999 album, Enema of the State.

In fact, it was his deep-rooted passion for learning more about other beings and outer space that essentially led him to leave the music industry. When DeLonge officially left the band in 2015, it wasn’t due to the the rocky relationship he had with bandmates Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus as much as it was his involvement with the first of nine young adult novels, a movie and his arts and science company, To The Stars.

On Wednesday, DeLonge went public with his passion project and announced during a live stream event the creation of the To The Stars Academy of Arts and Science, an institution that aims to learn more about “the outer edges of science” and unusual “phenomena.” Working alongside former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence Chris Mellon, former Department of Defense and CIA scientific researcher Dr. Hal Puthoff and former CIA agent Jim Semivan, DeLonge’s organization aims to explore the possibilities of life beyond Earth “without the restrictions of government priorities.”

The company plans to use its research to “tell the story of the millennia” through feature films and “revolutionary technology” that will give viewers the opportunity to explore outer space and extraterrestrial beings.

“We believe there are transformative discoveries within our reach that will revolutionize the human experience, but they can only be accomplished through the unrestricted support of breakthrough research, discovery and innovation,” the foundation’s mission statement reads. “The team members all share a common thread of frustration and determination to disrupt the status quo, wanting to use their expertise and credibility to bring transformative science and engineering out of the shadows and collaborate with global citizens to apply that knowledge in a way that benefits humanity.”

The company will raise money through crowdfunding to support its research and missions.

DeLonge had been working on the academy for years before he moved on from Blink-182, although he only first hinted at To The Stars during an interview with Rolling Stone in 2015.

"I couldn't tell the band I was working with people in the government," he said at the time. "That's another big part of this story. People think I want to just put out a novel and make a movie. I have 10 people that I'm working with that are at the highest levels of the Department of Defense and NASA and the military. Big shit, and no one knows this. I'm doing all this stuff already."

LAS VEGAS - A team of former spies and spooks came out of the shadows Wednesday to talk about UFOs.

The men formerly worked in national security positions within the Pentagon or intelligence agencies, which is where they were first exposed to classified information about UFO encounters.

Now, they've signed on with rock star Tom DeLonge in his quest to build a public company that could study and harness exotic technology.

The fact that these high-level government operatives would appear on the same stage with a rock star turned UFO hunter speaks volumes.

First, it tells the world that the government is still collecting UFO information, contrary to what the public has been told, and second, it shows that serious people think it's time for secrecy to end and public involvement to begin.

Part of what was learned in Wednesday's announcement involves a stunning UFO encounter with one of the most powerful warships in the world.

On a sunny day in 2004 off the coast of San Diego, the USS Nimitz battle group encountered a technology beyond anything known on earth. It was a mystery aircraft shaped like a 46-foot long Tic Tac that hovered and maneuvered for hours and defied the F-18's sent to intercept.

"In a series of discreet tumbling maneuvers that appear to defy the laws of physics, the object takes a position directly behind the approaching F-18. The pilots capture gun camera footage and infrared imagery of the object but are outmatched by a technology they have never seen," said Chris Mellon, former Defense Department intelligence official. "At one point, the object soars to 80,000 feet, hovers, then drops at supersonic speeds, makes a full stop 50 feet above the ocean. It is not an experimental U.S. aircraft, but whose is it?

The story was told by Mellon. An investigation by the navy was hushed up. The only public mention was in a little known aviation magazine read by pilots. Mellon says the incident illustrates the obvious -- that higher ups in the defense department know the technology is real and that it's not ours.

Officially the U.S. government says it stopped studying UFOs in 1969 when Project Blue Book was cancelled by the air force. At the announcement event in Seattle, that version of history was challenged by a man, who until a week ago, worked directly under Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

"For nearly the next decade, I ran a sensitive aerospace identification program focusing on unidentified aerial technologies. It was in this position that I learned the phenomena is indeed real," said Luis Elizondo.

He operated at the highest levels of the D.O.D. and collected UFO data, but quit to take a position with rock star Tom DeLonge and a team of other former government insiders, now on board with "To The Stars Academy", a public benefit corporation unveiled Wednesday morning. Some of what was announced was nuanced -- Elizondo's presence confirmed that UFOs are taken seriously within a small circle in government.

Former Lockheed Skunkworks manager Steve Justice said he thinks UFO data could be incorporated into technology that could change the world.

Mellon mentioned the Tic Tac UFO to prod congress into asking for a briefing on the hushed up incident.

Musician DeLonge used his panel of high-powered partners to draw attention to his project which was also profiled in a film meant to inspire public participation.

Part of the plan is to build systems that will collect UFO data, separate from what the military already gathers. There were also hints of a possible partnership in which government photos and videos of unusual objects will be released, and a way that regular people can join the effort to identify and investigate weird stuff in the sky.

To The Stars wants to work 'without the restrictions' of the government. Uh.

Timothy J. Seppala10/12/17

Former Blink-182 singer and guitarist Tom DeLonge is taking his fascination with/conspiracy theories about UFOs to their logical conclusion point: He's partnering with former government officials on a public benefit corporation studying "exotic technologies" from Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) that the consortium says can "revolutionize the human experience."

To The Stars Academy says it strives to be a powerful vehicle for change and that its members will have the "freedom to explore exotic science and technologies with the infrastructure and resources to rapidly transition them to products that can change the world." Phew. The Academy will focus on three pillars: science, aerospace and entertainment.

For science, DeLonge and Co. want to study consciousness, brain-computer interfaces, UAPs and telepathy. That's in addition to a proposed human ultra-experience database that they hope will collect "supranormal experienced, with the goal of creating proprietary algorithms to find detailed patterns and correlate them with other academic research." Sure.

As far as the other pillars go, To the Stars wants to further develop the tech needed to launch small satellites into orbit using ground-based lasers. Entertainment includes plans to develop a feature film, further expand Delonge's Sekret Machines novel and move into animation and short films.

TO THE STARS IS RAISING MONEY VIA CROWDFUNDING AND CURRENTLY HAS PULLED IN $265,605 FROM 535 INVESTORS.

"The public interest in the outer edges of science and the understanding of phenomena has always been suffocated by mainstream ideology and bureaucratic constraint," the pitch page says. "We believe there are transformative discoveries within our reach that will revolutionize the human experience, but they can only be accomplished through the unrestricted support of breakthrough research, discovery and innovation."

Sounds pretty normal right? Buckle up.

"The team members all share a common thread of frustration and determination to disrupt the status quo, wanting to use their expertise and credibility to bring transformative science and engineering out of the shadows and collaborate with global citizens to apply that knowledge in a way that benefits humanity. Without the restrictions of government priorities."